A little older but a lot wiser, Rory McIlroy adopted a new strategy for playing the Stadium Course at Sawgrass yesterday — and promptly recorded one of the best scores of the day in the first round of The Players Championship. McIlroy, who missed the halfway cut in each of his previous three

There is no more sitting on the fence for Graeme McDowell as to which country he will represent at the Olympic Games in Brazil in 2016. McDowell, a Northern Irishman, has been torn between representing Team GB or Ireland, but now seems happy to plump for the latter. The same cannot be said

Vijay Singh hopes to win The Players Championship at Sawgrass on Sunday and then use some of the $1.7 million (about £1.1 million) prize money to sue the organisers for defamation. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. A week after successfully appealing against an unspecified suspension from

A week after successfully appealing against a suspension from the game for using a supplement containing a banned substance, Vijay Singh has revealed that he is suing the PGA Tour in the US for damaging his reputation. Singh, who admitted in a magazine article in January to using deer antler spray

As a fellow thirtysomething, Luke Donald says he took great heart from Adam Scott’s victory at the Masters last month and is looking to kick-start his own season with a win at The Players Championship at Sawgrass. “He’s someone who had come close a few times, and it’s always interesting to see the

David Lynn, playing in his first season on the PGA Tour in the United states at the age of 39, was pipped at the post at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina yesterday when he was beaten at the first hole of a sudden-death play-off by Derek Ernst — a player even more unheralded on the

Rory McIlroy drew on good memories at the Quail Hollow Club yesterday to keep himself in contention at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the scene of his first victory on the PGA Tour in the United States, in 2010, McIlroy added a 71 to his first-round 67 to move to six

I was once taken to task by a member of staff at one of golf’s professional tours for writing that blood testing was needed if the game was to have any credibility in a sporting world in which the use of performance-enhancing drugs had become widespread. Insisting that golfers could not benefit

Three months after he admitted using deer antler spray, a product containing a banned substance, Vijay Singh has successfully appealed against a suspension from the game, it was revealed last night. A statement from the PGA Tour in the United States said that the Fijian had initially been censured

Greg Norman has accused golf’s authorities of not taking the issue of doping seriously enough. With sanctions yet to be announced against Vijay Singh, who admitted in January that he had used a spray containing a banned substance, Norman said that it was time that blood testing was introduced into